Its interesting how things become trends and the next "big thing". The same concept has been around for a long time (divide and conquer), even in CS (though perhaps more related to hardware) in tree machines.
Not to say that google isn't doing great things with the concept, just interesting to note that we've already studied some really complex problems and come up with smart, efficient solutions in the last 50 yrs and a lot of what we think is innovative is anything but.
Not to say that google isn't doing great things with the concept, just interesting to note that we've already studied some really complex problems and come up with smart, efficient solutions in the last 50 yrs and a lot of what we think is innovative is anything but.